Fluid Patterns of Awareness: Why Pain Hurts and Other Interesting Dynamics

There are quantum shifts in awareness, (the alert state of our life force process) that we already possess

. For example if the body is injured, awareness jumps to the body, and we often become non-thinking, only physically reactive. In effect, our life force become pain, pain, pain! The opposite occurs in orgasm, awareness floods to the physical, again becoming non-thinking.

The mind can also demand the full portion of awareness; for example, a pleasurable task or even an engrossing movie can make us unaware of the body. We can forget to eat or even sleep. The suffering of mental illness is fed by the grasping of the mind to itself like an octopus in distress, unable to release its hold on awareness.

The subconscious mind is an inner or more subtle mind than the ordinary mind that also has pleasure and pain desires, which drags primary awareness (life force) to its needs. An example of this is the sleep and dream state. There are even more inner minds and more development needed.

The outer mind and body are trainable to stop grasping after pleasure and pain, but affirming a little bit later stage of development is only a tiny portion of the possibilities available to us in human life.

There are many philosophies regarding the nature of reality, some are nihilistic (that nothing exists at all) and most are permantism (that even one real thing exists).Those who affirm that only awareness exists to know itself is simply using another way of saying, We are All One: permanentism, but just in a more intellectual and abstract style!

Time is better spent in reducing the very real, and often painful obstacles that prevent awakening to the freedom of the enlightened state. Understanding the nature of the mind and consciousness help us to work with our nature to improve and prepare for that quantum transformation in consciousness.

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Fluid Patterns of Awareness: Why Pain Hurts and Other Interesting Dynamics

By: Domo Geshe Rinpoche

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